Youth Today
Opinion
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1.9KLawmakers: Make TANF Work for Children
The verdict is out: 20 years later, the only federal cash assistance program for low-income families desperately needs an overhaul.
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2.6KRelationships That Last Beyond the System the Key for Kids, Families
The kids and parents we work with too often feel fear, anger and a diminished sense of self in their relationships with...
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1.4KAdvocating for Social Security is Advocating for Youth
The national focus on Social Security’s benefits for seniors obscures its role as one of the largest antipoverty programs for children.
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304Bridging the Gap Between Career Perceptions and Reality With the Ace Mentor Program
“I had no idea there were so many different types of engineering.” I hear this kind of statement from students every year....
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1.4KJanet Reno Endowment Will Strengthen Child Advocacy Field She Has Always Supported
If you are lucky, you come across someone in your career who provides an "unforgettable interruption" — someone who teaches you, someone...
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1.3KTeachers, SROs Must Learn to Manage Students Without Using Justice System
One measure of how some schools’ priorities have changed is that, according to recent data from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office...
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3.0KConnecting, Integrating STEM and Social Emotional Learning
At a recent national Out of School Time (OST) conference I attended, one participant proudly shared how her program was working on...
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1.1KStrong Education Programs, Supports Can Be Potent for Justice-Involved Youth
Very few things mattered to me, including my own life. It was not until I joined the college program of the juvenile...
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3.9KSo You Think You Want to Be a Social Worker
For most of my early adult life I remained steadfastly uncertain about what my future held. I had a bachelor’s degree in...
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1.5KWe Must Talk Openly About Real Reasons for Racial Disparities
Let’s talk about race. The mention of race stirs emotions that are usually not expressed for fear of the response.
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1.6KWe Know Enough to Act: What Research Says (Again) About Effectively Supporting Youth
In the late 1990s, there was a dispiriting sense that many disadvantaged young people were too difficult to work with, that they...
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1.7KKeeping Schools Safe While Reducing Suspensions and Expulsions
There’s good news and bad news in the report “Indicators of School Crime and Safety 2015,” the most recent in an annual...
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Strategies, Tools for Educators to Dismantle School-to-Prison Pipeline
Many educators view a new school year as an opportunity for improvement, a fresh start and a chance to reset, especially with...
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1.7KFashion Fines, Felonies Not the Way to Get Teens to Stop Sagging Their Pants
According to my Facebook timeline, yet another fashion trend is on its way out. Fashion comes and goes, right? But none of...
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2.1KHow Many Children Are in the Foster Care Twilight Zone?
When cases involving children needlessly torn from their families would arise in Texas — like this one and this one — advocates...
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What Does Trauma-informed Mean to Foster Youth?
For three decades, I have listened in awe to the brave voices of children, youth and families who have shared, in anguish,...
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1.7KThe Revolution That Restorative Detention Can Be
“This doesn’t look like any detention I ever seen!” Marcus says about the ring of chairs I’ve set up for our school’s...
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1.7KRedouble Efforts to Help More Students Graduate
Just 10 years ago, the nation’s on-time high school graduation rate was hovering around 70 percent, where it had been stuck for...
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2.2KPersonal Development for the OST Workforce: A Shift in Focus for a Growing Field
Professional development in the out-of-school-time (OST) field has been on an evolutionary curve in recent times.
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1.2KIn the Wake of Racial Injustice … What Should Youth Workers Do?
This editorial is based on a series of Facebook posts that occurred in the wake of the deaths of Alton Sterling and...
